HSK 4 · Time

礼拜天 Lǐbàitiān “Sunday” in Chinese

Traditional 禮拜天

What 礼拜天 means

  1. Sunday

How to say 礼拜天

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale礼Lǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale拜bài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level

礼拜天 in a sentence

  1. 上个礼拜天我刚好有空。

    Shàng ge Lǐbàitiān wǒ gānghǎo yǒukòng.

    I happened to be free last Sunday.

    Sentence #2757207 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 礼拜天 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 礼 (lǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
礼lǐgiftLǐ in 礼拜天
  • 礻sign form of 示 · shìMeaning part
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐSound part

礻 hints at the meaning (sign); 乚 (yǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with Lǐ.

The character 拜 (bài) with each of its parts in a different colour
拜bàito bow to; to pay one’s respects
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 手hand · shǒu
The character 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

How to write 礼拜天

礼 5 strokes · 拜 9 strokes · 天 4 strokes

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礼拜天 (Lǐbàitiān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 礼拜天 (Lǐbàitiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 礼拜天

Words with 礼

礼物lǐwù · gift礼貌lǐmào · courtesy婚礼hūnlǐ · wedding ceremony敬礼jìnglǐ · to salute典礼diǎnlǐ · ceremony礼节lǐjié · etiquette礼尚往来lǐshàngwǎnglái · courtesy calls for reciprocity

Words with 拜

拜托bàituō · to ask a favour拜访bàifǎng · to pay a visit崇拜chóngbài · to worship拜年bàinián · to give New Year greetings

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter

More words: Time

当时dāngshí · then寒假hánjià · winter holidays将来jiānglái · in the future节jié · festival秒miǎo · second (of time)偶尔ǒu'ěr · occasionally平时píngshí · ordinarily世纪shìjì · century

FAQs

礼拜天 (Lǐbàitiān) means “Sunday”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it Lǐbàitiān: Lǐ with a 3rd tone, then bài with a 4th tone, then tiān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 礼拜天 is written 禮拜天. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type libaitian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 礼拜天 from the suggestions. Typing libaitian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
礼拜天 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.